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COCHABAMBA, Bolivia, (Reuters) – South America’s most outspoken leftist leaders gathered yesterday to rally behind Bolivian President Evo Morales, whose plane was diverted in Europe this week on suspicions that fugitive U.S.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – The leader of the Muslim Brotherhood was arrested by Egyptian security forces today in a crackdown against the Islamist movement after the army ousted the country’s first democratically elected president.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Scientists have for the first time created a functional human liver from stem cells derived from skin and blood and say their success points to a future where much-needed livers and other transplant organs could be made in a laboratory.

CAIRO,  (Reuters) – Egypt’s army overthrew elected President Mohamed Mursi, delighting millions who hated Islamist rule but incensing his supporters, who saw a military coup that poses dilemmas for Western leaders who promote democracy.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – The late Pope John Paul II moved closer to sainthood yesterday after a commission of cardinals and bishops credited him with a second miracle since his death, Italian media reported.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egyptian President Mohamed Mursi vowed to stay in power and defend constitutional legitimacy with his life yesterday as generals worked on plans to push the Islamist aside within the day and suspend the constitution.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Bolivia said President Evo Morales’ plane was diverted on a flight from Russia and forced to land in Austria over suspicions that Edward Snowden might be on board, as several countries spurned the former U.S.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Obama administration yesterday said it will not require employers to provide health insurance for their workers until 2015, delaying a key provision of President Barack Obama’s healthcare reform law by a year, to beyond the next election.

MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said today that Edward Snowden, the former U.S.

CAIRO (Reuters) – Egypt’s armed forces handed Islamist President Mohamed Mursi a virtual ultimatum to share power yesterday, giving feuding politicians 48 hours to compromise or have the army impose its own road map for the country.

VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Two top managers of the scandal-plagued Vatican bank resigned yesterday following the arrest of a high-ranking cleric with close ties to the financial institution, in the latest of a string of embarrassments for the Holy See.

LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) – Former US spy agency contractor Edward Snowden broke his silence yesterday for the first time since fleeing to Moscow to say he remains free to make new disclosures about US spying activity.

ABUJA (Reuters) – A Nigerian government rights watchdog said it had credible reports the country’s own forces carried out extra-judicial killings, torture, rape and arbitrary detention in efforts to quell an Islamist insurgency in the northeast.

MUQDADIYA, Iraq (Reuters) – A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mourning ceremony inside a Shi’ite mosque in Iraq late yesterday, killing at least 22 people, police said.

Washington, (Reuters) – Former U.S. spy agency contractor Edward Snowden, charged with leaking secret U.S.

PRESCOTT, Ariz.,  (Reuters) – An elite team of 19 firemen were killed on Sunday in one of deadliest U.S.

CAIRO, (Reuters) – Egypt was locked in a tense standoff yesterday after millions of protesters swarmed into the streets to demand the resignation of Islamist President Mohamed Mursi and militants set the ruling Muslim Brotherhood’s headquarters on fire.

(Jamaica Observer) Retired police officer and revered crime-fighter Reneto Adams wants the police force, which he served for 41 years, to be scrapped and replaced by another institution.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Delegations from over a dozen countries that are members of the Venezuelan-led oil alliance Petrocaribe agreed on Saturday to adopt a framework for promoting trade within the block.

(Trinidad Express) Acting chief executive of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) Robert Corbie has resigned with immediate effect from the cash-strapped national carrier.